Adj. pursuing &c. v.; in quest of &c. (inquiry) 461 in pursuit, in full cry, in hot pursuit; on the scent. Adv

avoidance, evasion, elusion; seclusion &c. 893.

avolation[obs1], flight; escape &c. 671; retreat &c. 287; recoil &c. 277; departure &c. 293; rejection &c. 610.

shirker &c. v.; truant; fugitive, refugee; runaway, runagate; maroon.

eschew, keep from, let alone, have nothing to do with; keep aloof keep off, stand aloof, stand off, hold aloof, hold off; take no part in, have no hand in.

avoid, shun; steer clear of, keep clear of; fight shy of; keep one's distance, keep at a respectful distance; keep out of the way, get out of the way; evade, elude, turn away from; set one's face against &c. (oppose) 708; deny oneself.

shrink back; hang back, hold back, draw back; recoil &c. 277; retire &c. (recede) 287; flinch, blink, blench, shy, shirk, dodge, parry, make way for, give place to.

[ref: 293 (departure)][P.2.4.1.4] retreat, flee.

[ref] abandon &c. 624; reject &c. 610.

lead one a dance, lead one a pretty dance; throw off the scent, play at hide and seek.

Adj. unsought, unattempted; avoiding &c. v.; neutral, shy of &c. (unwilling) 603; elusive, evasive; fugitive, runaway; shy, wild.

Adv. lest, in order to avoid.

Int. forbear! keep off, hands off! sauve qui peut[Fr]! [French: every man for himself]; devil take the hindmost!

Phr. "things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme" [Paradise Lost].
M7.1.2.1.1.5 Relinquishment (R624).

#624. Relinquishment. -- N. relinquishment, abandonment; desertion, defection, secession, withdrawal, abnegation; cave of Adullam[obs3]; nolle prosequi[Lat].

discontinuance &c. (cessation) 142; renunciation &c. (recantation) 607; abrogation &c. 756; resignation &c. (retirement) 757; desuetude &c. 614; cession &c. (of property) 782.

renounce &c. (abjure) 607; forego, have done with, drop; disuse &c. 678; discard &c. 782; wash one's hands of; drop all idea of.

break off, leave off; desist; stop &c. (cease) 142; hold one's hand, stay one's hand; quit one's hold; give over, shut up shop.

throw up the game, throw up the cards; give up the point, give up the argument; pass to the order of the day, move to the previous question.

speculation, venture, stake, game of chance; mere shot, random shot; blind bargain, leap in the dark; pig in a poke &c. (uncertainty) 475; fluke, potluck; faro bank; flyer*; limit.

uncertainty; uncertainty principle, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

drawing lots; sortilegy[obs3], sortition[obs1]; sortes[obs3], sortes Virgilianae[obs3]; rouge et noir[Fr], hazard, ante, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo [obs3][U.S.], craps, faro, roulette, pitch and toss, chuck, farthing, cup tossing, heads or tails cross and pile, poker-dice; wager; bet, betting; gambling; the turf.

gaming house, gambling house, betting house; bucket shop; gambling joint; totalizator, totalizer; hell; betting ring; dice, dice box.

[person who takes chances] gambler, gamester; man of the turf; adventurer; dicer[obs2].

toss up; cast lots, draw lots; leave to chance, trust to chance, leave to the chapter of accidents, trust to the chapter of accidents; tempt fortune; chance it, take one's chance, take a shot at it (attempt) 675; run the risk, run the chance, incur the risk, incur the chance, encounter the risk, encounter the chance; stand the hazard of the die.

speculate, try one's luck, set on a cast, raffle, put into a lottery, buy a pig in a poke, shuffle the cards.

risk, venture, hazard, stake; ante; lay, lay a wager; make a bet, wager, bet, gamble, game, play for; play at chuck farthing.

random, indiscriminate, promiscuous; undirected; aimless, driftless[obs3], designless[obs3], purposeless, causeless; without purpose.

possible &c. 470.

unforeseeable, unpredictable, chancy, risky, speculative, dicey.

616a Persuasion 616. Dissuasion

617. Plea

744. compulsion

(note that persuasion is distinugished from motive generally, where it was placed in Roget. Here persuasion is a motive primarily caused by other people, but sometimes caused by external events.) -->

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#616a. Persuasion -- N. persuasion, suasion; encouragement, advocacy; exhortation, inducement, urging; blandishment, cajolery; seduction, seducement.

temptation, enticement, lure, agacerie[obs3], allurement.

attraction, consideration; fascination; allectation[obs1], allective[obs1]; witchery, bewitchment, bewitchery; charm; spell &c. 993.

honeyed words, voice of the tempter, song of the Sirens forbidden fruit, golden apple.

{{has_metaphor(attraction)}} loadstone; magnet, magnetism, magnetic force.

influence, pull[coll]; prompting, dictate, instance.

impulse, impulsion; incitement, incitation; press, instigation; provocation &c. (excitation of feeling) 824; inspiration; advice &c. 695; solicitation &c. (request) 765.

lobbying, lobbyism.

incentive, stimulus, spur, fillip, whip, goad, ankus[obs3], rowel, provocative, whet, dram.

lure, bait; decoy, decoy duck; trail of a red herring.

bribe; bribery and corruption; sop, sop for Cerberus.

{{has_obj_requirement}} persuasibility[obs3], persuasibleness[obs3]; attractability[obs3]; impressibility, susceptibility; softness.

{{has_subj_requirement}}{{has_trait(persuader,P2.3.2.3.2.5.56)}} persuasiveness, attractiveness; tantalization[obs3].

{{performed_by: persuader, prompter, tempter; lobbyist; seducer, seductor[obs3]; instigator, firebrand, incendiary, P2.3.2.3.2.5.56 Persuader }}.

persuade; prevail with, prevail upon; overcome, carry; bring round to one's senses, bring to one's senses; draw over, win over, gain over, come over, talk over; procure, enlist, engage; invite, court.

lobby.

tempt, seduce, overpersuade[obs3], entice, allure, captivate, fascinate, bewitch, carry away, charm, conciliate, wheedle, coax, lure; inveigle; tantalize; cajole &c. (deceive) 545.

enforce, force; impel &c. (push) 276; propel &c. 284; whip, lash, goad, spur, prick, urge; egg on, hound , hurry on; drag &c. 285; exhort; advise &c. 695; call upon &c. press &c. (request) 765; advocate.

set an example, set the fashion; keep in countenance.

be persuaded &c.; yield to temptation, come round; concede &c. (consent) 762; obey a call; follow advice, follow the bent, follow the dictates of; act on principle.

induced &c. v.; disposed.

easily persuaded; persuadable &c. (docile) 602; spellbound; instinct with, smitten with, infatuated; inspired &c. v. by.
#616. Dissuasion. -- N. dissuasion, dehortation[obs3], expostulation, remonstrance; deprecation &c. 766.

discouragement, damper, wet blanket; disillusionment, disenchantment.

cohibition &c. (restraint) 751[obs3]; curb &c. (means of restraint) 752; check &c. (hindrance) 706.

reluctance &c. (unwillingness) 603; contraindication.

disincline, indispose, shake, stagger; dispirit; discourage, dishearten; deter; repress, hold back, keep back &c. (restrain) 751; render averse &c. 603; repel; turn aside &c. (deviation) 279; wean from; act as a drag &c. (hinder) 706; throw cold water on, damp, cool, chill, blunt, calm, quiet, quench; deprecate &c. 766.

disenchant, ,disillusion, deflate, take down a peg, pop one's balloon, prick one's balloon, burst one's bubble; disabuse (correction) 527a.

Adj. dissuading &c. v.; dissuasive; dehortatory[obs3], expostulatory[obs3]; monitive[obs1], monitory.

dissuaded &c. v.; admonitory; uninduced &c. (induce &c. 615); unpersuadable &c. (obstinate) 606; averse &c. (unwilling) 603; repugnant &c. (dislike) 867.

repressed.
#617. [Ostensible motive, ground, or reason assigned.] Pretext. -- N. pretext, pretense, pretension, plea[obs1]; allegation, advocation; ostensible motive, ostensible ground, ostensible reason, phony reason; excuse &c. (vindication) 937; subterfuge; color; gloss, guise, cover.

loop hole, starting hole; how to creep out of, salvo, come off; way of escape.

handle, peg to hang on, room locus standi[Lat]; stalking-horse, cheval de bataille[Fr], cue.

pretense &c. (untruth) 546; put off, dust thrown in the eyes; blind; moonshine; mere pretext, shallow pretext; lame excuse, lame apology; tub to a whale; false plea, sour grapes; makeshift, shift, white lie; special pleading &c. (sophistry) 477; soft sawder &c. (flattery) 933[obs3].

force; brute force, main force, physical force; the sword, ultima ratio[Lat]; club law, lynch law, mob law, arguementum baculinum[obs3], le droit du plus fort[Fr], martial law.

restraint &c. 751; necessity &c. 601; force majeure[Fr]; Hobson's choice.

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force upon, press; cram down the throat, thrust down the throat, force down the throat; say it must be done, make a point of, insist upon, take no denial; put down.

conscript, impress, dragoon, draft.

extort, wring from; squeeze, put on the squeeze; put on the screws, turn on the screw; drag into; bind, bind over; pin down, tie down; require, tax, put in force; commandeer; restrain &c. 751.

forcible, not to be trifled with; irresistible &c. 601; compelled &c. v.; fain to.

under protest, in spite of one's teeth; against one's will &c. 603; nolens volens [Lat] &c. (of necessity) 601; by stress of circumstances, by stress of weather; under press of; de rigueur.

with a gun to one's head.

willy-nilly.

626. Plan

627. Method

628. Mid-course 629. Circuit

630. Requirement

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#625. Business. -- N. business, occupation, employment; pursuit &c. 622; what one is doing, what one is about; affair, concern, matter, case.

matter in hand, irons in the fire; thing to do, agendum, task, work, job, chore [U.S.], errand, commission, mission, charge, care; duty &c. 926.

part, role, cue; province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line; walk, walk of life; beat, round, routine; race, career.

office, place, post, chargeship[obs3], incumbency, living; situation, berth, employ; service &c. (servitude) 749; engagement; undertaking &c. 676.

vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty; industry, art; industrial arts; craft, mystery, handicraft; trade &c. (commerce) 794.

exercise; work &c. (action) 680; avocation; press of business &c. (activity) 682.

office, place, post, chargeship[obs3], incumbency, living; situation, berth, employ; service &c. (servitude) 749; engagement; undertaking &c. 676.

drive a trade; carry on a trade, do a trade, transact a trade, carry on business, do business, transact business &c. n.; keep a shop; ply one's task, ply one's trade; labor in one's vocation; pursue the even tenor of one's way; attend to business, attend to one's work.

officiate, serve, act; act one's part, play one's part; do duty; serve the office of, discharge the office of, perform the office of, perform the duties of, perform the functions of; hold an office, fill an office, fill a place, fill a situation; hold a portfolio, hold a place, hold a situation.

be about, be doing, be engaged in, be employed in, be occupied with, be at work on; have one's hands in, have in hand; have on one's hands, have on one's shoulders; bear the burden; have one's hands full &c. (activity) 682.

be in the hands of, be on the stocks, be on the anvil; pass through one's hands.

proposal, proposition, suggestion; resolution, motion; precaution &c. (provision) 673; deep-laid plan &c. (premeditated) 611;

system &c. (order) 58; organization &c. (arrangement) 60; germ &c. (cause) 153.

sketch, skeleton, outline, draught, draft, ebauche[Fr], brouillon[Fr]; rough cast, rough draft, draught copy; copy; proof, revise.

drawing, scheme, schematic, graphic, chart, flow chart (representation) 554.

forecast, program(me), prospectus; carte du pays[Fr]; card; bill, protocol; order of the day, list of agenda; bill of fare &c. (food) 298; base of operations; platform, plank, slate [U. S.], ticket [U. S.].

role; policy &c. (line of conduct) 692.

contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device; pipelaying [U. S.]; stratagem &c. (cunning) 702; trick &c. (deception) 545; alternative, loophole; shift &c. (substitute) 147; last shift &c. (necessity) 601.

measure, step; stroke, stroke of policy; master stroke; trump card, court card; cheval de bataille[Fr], great gun; coup, coup d'etat[Fr]; clever stroke, bold stroke, good move, good hit, good stroke; bright thought, bright idea.

intrigue, cabal, plot, conspiracy, complot[obs3], machination; subplot, underplot[obs3], counterplot.

schemer, schemist[obs3], schematist[obs1]; strategist, machinator; projector, artist, promoter, designer &c. v.; conspirator; intrigant &c. (cunning) 702[obs3].

V. plan,,scheme, design, frame, contrive, project, forecast, sketch; devise, invent &c. (imagine) 515; set one's wits to work &c. 515; spring a project; fall upon, hit upon; strike out, chalk out, cut out, lay out, map out; lay down a plan; shape out a course, mark out a course; predetermine &c. 611; concert, preconcert, preestablish; prepare &c. 673; hatch, hatch a plot concoct; take steps, take measures.

cast, recast, systematize, organize; arrange &c. 60; digest, mature.

plot; counter-plot, counter-mine; dig a mine; lay a train; intrigue &c. (cunning) 702.

Adj. planned &c. v.; strategic, strategical; planning &c. v.; prepared, in course of preparation &c. 673; under consideration; on the tapis[obs3], on the carpet, on the floor.
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#627. Path. -- N. path, road, route, course; line of way, line of road; trajectory, orbit, track, beat, tack.

{[in_frame(conduct, R692): method, way, procedure, manner, wise, gait, form, mode, fashion, tone, guise; , modus operandi, MO]}.

steps; stair, staircase; flight of stairs, ladder, stile; perron[obs3].

bridge, footbridge, viaduct, pontoon, steppingstone, plank, gangway; drawbridge; pass, ford, ferry, tunnel; pipe &c. 260.

door; gateway &c. (opening) 260; channel, passage, avenue, means of access, approach, adit[obs3]; artery, lane, alley, aisle, lobby, corridor; back-door, back-stairs; secret passage; covert way; vennel[obs3].

roadway, pathway, stairway; express; thoroughfare; highway; turnpike , freeway, royal road, coach road; broad highway, King's highway, Queen's highway; beaten track, beaten path; horse road, bridle road, bridle track, bridle path; walk, trottoir[obs3], footpath, pavement, flags, sidewalk; crossroad, byroad, bypath, byway; carrefour[obs3]; private road, occupation road; highways and byways; railroad, railway, tram road, tramway; towpath; causeway; canal &c. (conduit) 350; street &c. (abode) 189; speedway.

cut; short cut &c. (mid-course) 628.

Adv. by way of; via; in transitu[Lat] &c. 270; on the high road to.

Phr. hae tibi erunt artes[Lat].
#628. Mid-course. -- N. middle course, mid-course; mean &c. 29 middle &c. 68; juste milieu[Fr], mezzo termine[It], golden mean,

[obs3][Grk], aurea mediocritas[Lat].

{{has_property(nearness, R197)}} {{has_property(directness)}} straight course, straight path, direct course, direct route; short cut, cross cut; great circle sailing.

neutrality; half measure, half and half measures; compromise.

V. keep in a middle course, preserve a middle course, preserve an even course, go straight &c. (direct) 278.

go halfway, compromise, make a compromise.

side trip; scenic route.

lead a pretty dance; beat about the bush; make two bites of a cherry.

needfulness, essentiality, necessity, indispensability, urgency.

requisition &c. (request) 765, (exaction) 741; run upon; demand, call for.

charge, claim, command, injunction, mandate, order, precept.

desideratum &c. (desire) 865; want &c. (deficiency) 640.

V. require, need, want, have occasion for; not be able to do without, not be able to dispense with; prerequire.

render necessary, necessitate, create a, necessity for, call for, put in requisition; make a requisition &c. (ask for) 765, (demand) 741.

stand in need of; lack &c. 640; desiderate[obs3]; desire &c. 865; be necessary &c. adj.